[TriLUG] TriLUG Server Refresh

[tj via TriLUG]

on my suggestion:
Proxmox 3.4: I am using on my new baremetal.

Hardware RAID, RAID1 or RAID 10 for proxmox with storage.

I have been on ZoL, pretty stable 0.6.3.X in general for running 24/7 and
backup(running 0.6.2.X).

Open Virtual Switch is in proxmox now. need to enable free
 non-subsrciption repo.

one Warning, proxmox community forums is lack of supports
but as long as we know linux and kvm, we are good to go since proxmox uses
non-modified  linux KVM.
I am skipping openVZ since  concern on security due on container running on
the top of the host kernel.

do not forget to select virtio  when configure VM..

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 8:18 PM, David Brain via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 2950's a decent box - we used to have a number of them at $work and
> still have some being used for test boxes.  I wouldn't be afraid of
> using the hardware RAID in the server - it's a PERC 6/i, and the
> PERC's >= 5 are solid (i.e. I've not had one eat my data - cannot be
> said for the PERC 3's), allow for a hot spare (which would be worth
> looking at if you want to be able to not have to run out and fix any
> dead drives quickly) and have fairly flexible config options.
>
> I'd be a little wary of ESX/i free as they've added & removed various
> limitations on the 'free' version (e.g 32GB for a server in I think
> 5.1) seemingly arbitrarily.  If VMs are something you want to do, KVM
> might also be an option - I've not used it extensively but have it
> running on my home 'server' with 3 or 4 VM's and it's worked as
> expected. A 2950 with the right firmware maxes out at 64GB so that
> might limit things a bit (still it's more mem than some of my
> production servers...).
>
>
> David.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 6:30 PM, Igor Partola via TriLUG
> <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> > May I suggest using ZFS instead of any type of RAID. From my research,
> it is currently the best way to store data on persistent drives. For the
> drive selection, check out the latest recommendations from the Backblaze
> blog.
> >
> > I am also partial to Ubuntu for their stellar distro, great package
> management, and timely releases.
> >
> > Igor
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